The Wholeness of Life
1975 – 1984
In yourself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or that door to open except yourself.
“The room became full with that benediction. Now what followed is almost impossible to put down in words; words are such dead things, with definite set meaning and what took place was beyond all words and description. It was the centre of all creation; it was a purifying seriousness that cleansed the brain of every thought and feeling; its seriousness was as lightning which destroys and burns up; the profundity of it was not measurable, it was there immovable, impenetrable, a solidity that was as light as the heavens. It was in the eyes, in the breath. It was in the eyes and the eyes could see. The eyes that saw, that looked were wholly different from the eyes of the organ and yet they were the same eyes. There was only seeing, the eyes that saw beyond time-space. There was impenetrable dignity and a peace that was the essence of all movement, action. No virtue touched it for it was beyond all virtue and sanctions of man.”
J. Krishnamurti
Beginnings of Learning published
Oak Grove School opens at Arya Vihara in Ojai
Talks held at Masonic Hall in San Francisco, in Ojai, Malibu, New York City, USA; Rishi Valley, Bangalore, Bombay [Mumbai], India; Brockwood Park, England; Saanen, Switzerland
Viet Cong imposes communist
rule; Nguyen Van Thieu resigns
as President of South Viet Nam
U.S. evacuates troops
Anglican Church of Canada
approves women in priesthood
Billie Jean King captures 6th
tennis championship
China: six thousand life sized
pottery figures found
Linus Pauling receives
National Medal of Honor
Hawaii: Mauna Loa volcano erupts
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
The Gulag Archipelago
Milos Forman films “One Flew
over the Cockoo’s Nest”
Helsinki Accords
Francisco Franco dies
Angola gains independence
Soviets buy grain from USA
Pol Pot takes over Cambodia:
‘The Killing Fields’
Mozambique gains independence
Communists capture south Vietnam
The Oak Grove School – An Exploration of Learning
Krishnamurti’s Notebook published
Krishnamurti and David Bohm host Scientific Conference
Psychiatrist David Shainberg brings 25 psychotherapists for a conference and joins Bohm in videotaped discussions
Viking robot lands on Mars
Mao Tse Tung dies
Alex Haley: Roots published
Werner Heisenberg, Nobel
Prize winning physicist, dies
Israeli Raid on Entebbe airport,
Uganda, 103 hostages rescued
Apple II invented
Academy Awards: One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest wins five
major awards
Interview on Education by Fred Hall – Ojai, 1975
Krishnamurti dedicates Oak Grove School Pavilion
Truth and Actuality published
Talks held in Ojai, New York City, USA; Brockwood Park, England; Saanen, Switzerland; Benares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, and Madras [Chennai], India
President Carter warns of
USA energy crisis
Television dramatization of
Roots
Elvis Presley dies
Wernher von Braun, rocket expert,
dies
G. Gordon Liddy released
from prison
George Lucas films “Star Wars”
Seattle Slew wins Triple Crown,
Belmont, Preakness and
Kentucky Derby
John Travolta films
“Saturday Night Fever”
Zaire turns back Angolan invasion
Elections in Pakistan
Anwar Sadat: first Arab leader
to visit Jerusalem
USA gives up Panama Canal
Carter pardons draft evaders
Bing Crosby dies
The Transformation of Man Series: Discussions with D. Bohm and D. Shainberg at Brockwood Park, 1976
Vancouver Island, British Colombia: meetings and a school briefly came into being
The Valley School opens near Bangalore
The Wholeness of Life is published
Talks held in Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], Benares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, India; Brockwood Park, England; Ojai, USA; and Saanen, Switzerland
Illustrator Norman Rockwell dies
US Supreme Court
backs affirmative action
USA and China announce
full relations
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla
becomes Pope John Paul II
Indira Gandhi expelled
from Parliament
Aldo Moro, former Italian Premier
slain by Red Brigade
Sandinista guerillas overthrow
government
Smallpox eradicated
Afghanistan: military junta
seizes power
Composer Aram Khachaturian dies
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, and her son Rajiv, visit in 1978 and will again 1979
Krishnamurti dedicates Oak Grove School main house
Meditations and Explorations into Insight are published
Talks in Madras [Chennai], Rishi Valley, Bombay [Mumbai], India; Ojai, USA; Brockwood Park, England; and Saanen, Switzerland
Carter and Brezhnev sign
SALT II arms treaty
Camp David Mideast Peace
Treaty frame agreed upon by
Carter, Begin and Sadat
52 hostages held in Iran
Three Mile Island nuclear
disaster averted
Israel and Egypt sign treaty
to end 30-year war
Margaret Thatcher becomes
first woman to head a
European country
Nicaragua: war between
Sandinistas and Contras
Khomeini rises to power in Iran,
begins Islamic Revolution
William Styron:
Sophie’s Choice
Mother Teresa awarded
Nobel Peace Prize
Vietnamese take Phnom Penh
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Idi Amin overthrown
War between Somalia
and Ethiopia
Civil war in El Salvador
“In yourself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or that door to open except yourself.”
You Are the World, 1972
The Ending of Time
Krishnamurti and David Bohm videotape discussions to be published as The Ending of Time in 1985
Krishnamurti visited Adyar beach where he had been “discovered,” something he continued each time he came to India
Invited to speak in Sri Lanka, is met by the Prime Minister, interviewed on television and met privately with the President; throngs attend talks in Colombo
Talks held in Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], Rishi Valley, India; Ojai, USA; Wolf Lake, Vancouver, Canada; Brockwood Park, England; and Saanen, Switzerland
Sadam Hussein attacks Iran
Poland: Lech Walesa becomes chairman
of Solidarity trade union
Jean Paul Sartre dies
Col. Harland Sanders dies;
founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Universities and institutions
use internet
John Lennon killed
Gang of Four on trial in China
Libya intervenes in Chad civil war
Embassy of Columbia seized
Indira Gandhi: Congress I party victory in general election
Yugoslavia: Marshall Tito dies
CNN (Cable News Network)
first 24 hour news
Conversation with D. Bohm at Brockwood Park, 1980 – Cosmic Order
Letters to the Schools published
Talks in Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, India; Brockwood Park, England; Saanen, Switzerland; Amsterdam, Holland; Los Angeles and Ojai, USA
Ronald Reagan becomes
40th US President
52 US hostages freed in Iran
IBM launches personal computer
Reagan wounded by gunman
John Hinckley
Pope John Paul II shot
Joe Louis, boxing champion, dies
Sandra Day O’Connor: first
woman on Supreme Court
Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat assassinated
Israel annexes Golan Heights
Mao Tse Tung widow Jiang
Qing sentenced to death for
treason (commuted)
Reagan fires air traffic controllers
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Mitterrand elected President
of France
Martial law in Poland
Israel destroys Iraq’s nuclear reactor
The Nature of the Mind – A Series of Conversations with Scientists
The Challenge of Change – A Biographical Film
Krishnamurti, Bohm, Hidley and Rupert Sheldrake in four dialogues: “The Nature of the Mind”
The Network of Thought and Krishnamurti’s Journal are published
Talks held in Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], Calcutta [Kolkata], Rishi Valley, India; New York City, Ojai, USA; London, Brockwood Park, England; and Saanen, Switzerland
Israel invades south Lebanon
Sylvia Plath wins Pulitzer
Prize for poetry
First CD player sold in Japan
Pianist Artur Rubinstein dies
Groningen University, Netherlands,
postulates black hole in galaxy
Brezhnev dies
Argentina invades Falkland
Islands
British forces land in Argentina
Prince Sihanouk joins Khmer Rouge
against Cambodian government
Premiere of film “The Challenge of Change”
The Flame of Attention is published
Krishnamurti speaks at Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ojai, USA; Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai],New Delhi, Rishi Valley, India; Brockwood Park, England; and Saanen, Switzerland
Britain announces Argentine
surrender in Falklands
Buckminster Fuller dies
Tennessee Williams dies
Cambridge votes to admit
female undergraduates
USA invades Grenada
Harry James, jazz trumpeter, dies
Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers vs.
Sinhalese – hundreds killed
Reagan calls USSR Evil
Empire, proposes ‘Star Wars’
Luis Buñuel dies
South Korean airliner shot down
over USSR
Northern Chad seized by Libyan
troops and Chad rebels
US peacekeepers killed in
Lebanon
Beirut: U.S Embassy bombed by Shiite Muslims: 87 killed
“Death means the ending of the known. It means the ending of the physical organism, the ending of all the memory which I am, for I am nothing but memory. And I am frightened to let all that go, which means death. Death means the ending of attachments, that is dying while living, not separated by fifty years or so, waiting for some disease to finish you off. It is living with all your vitality, energy, intellectual capacity and with great feeling, and at the same time, for certain conclusions, certain idiosyncrasies, experiences, attachments, hurts, to end, to die.
That is, while living, also live with death.”
Amsterdam, 1981
Mind without Measure and Sri Lanka Talks 1980 are published
Krishnamurti speaks at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Ojai, San Francisco, New York City, USA; Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], Benares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, India; Brockwood Park, England; and Saanen, Switzerland
Apple – Macintosh computer
with mouse launched
Indira Gandhi assassinated
by Sikh bodyguards
Ansel Adams, photographer, dies
Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded
Nobel Peace Prize
Filmmaker Francois Truffaut dies
Film: “Amadeus” on Mozart
UK and China agree on
Hong Kong
Indian army attacks Sikh temple
AIDS epidemic begins
Shimon Peres becomes Prime
Minister of Isreal
Cambridge University celebrates
400th anniversiry
Philippines: Typhoon kills 500 –
1 million homeless